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Download full textEdgerton, Adam K. – Congressional Research Service, 2023
Student-parents face unique postsecondary persistence and completion challenges as they balance raising children with the demands of coursework and possibly employment. In order to help lowincome student-parents earn degrees and credentials, the federal government provides Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) grants to institutions…
Descriptors: Parents, Employed Parents, College Students, Low Income Students
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child Care, requires states to use information about the provider cost of child care to inform the setting of payment rates under the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) program. This requirement is consistent with the growing recognition that…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, State Policy, Costs
Lynch, Karen E. – Congressional Research Service, 2022
The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (CCDBG Act, as amended) is the main federal law governing child care programs for low-income working families. The CCDBG Act authorizes discretionary appropriations to support grants to state, territorial, and tribal lead agencies. Lead agencies use these funds to subsidize the child care…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Federal Aid, Grants, Child Care
Garver, Karin; Weisenfeld, G. G.; Connors-Tadros, Lori; Hodges, Katherine; Melnick, Hanna; Plasencia, Sara – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
Most states in the United States operate their public preschool programs in a mixed delivery system that serves children in local education agencies (LEAs) as well as non-LEA settings, such as Head Start agencies, child care centers, private schools, and family child care homes. To inform state preschool administrators and policymakers as they…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, State Policy, School Districts, Delivery Systems
Adams, Gina; Ewen, Danielle; Luetmer, Grace – Urban Institute, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented, urgent challenges for the child care and early education workforce. Though the workforce has always been fragile, new stressors presented over the past year have highlighted fundamental structural problems in the system, including the inequities facing Black, Latina, and Native American child care…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Child Caregivers, State Policy
Head Start's Interaction with Federal, State, and Local Systems. Research Brief. OPRE Report 2022-12
Bernstein, Sara; Reid, Natalie; Harrington, Jeffrey; Malone, Lizabeth – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
Head Start is an essential part of the programs and funding streams that provide early care and education (ECE) services to young children in the U.S. Head Start focuses on supporting children and families with low incomes, but also contributes to the broader effort to expand access to high quality ECE for all young children. Programs and…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Social Services, Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education
Leung, Melanie; O'Neal, Desiree; Ondrasek, Naomi; Melnick, Hanna – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
Since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in the United States in March 2020, districts across the nation have faced the difficult task of reopening schools safely and keeping them open. It is useful to learn from the successes of districts that have used multilayered mitigation strategies to reduce the risk of in-school transmission. This brief…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, School Schedules
